🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week I bring you interviews with Bildr and Vimcal's founders as well as 3 curated resources for entrepreneurs.

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content 📚

💰 Growing an all-in-one no-code tool after raising $1.5M. Mark is co-founder of Bildr, an all-in-one platform for visual web development for building web apps, SaaS products, Chrome Extensions and web3 tools, with or without code.

The product is in open beta right now. They have already raised $1.5M and have built a distributed team of 12. Here's how to build a SaaS in a competitive niche.​

️🚀 Growing the fastest calendar SaaS to thousands of users. John is the co-founder of Vimcal, the "world's fastest calendar", designed for people who work remotely.

The business is super customer-oriented: every employee has personally onboarded at least 100 users. Talking to customers is part of their company DNA. Here's how customer interviews and onboarding were essential to Vimcal's growth.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​E-comm roll-ups in 2021. Prior to 2021, E-comm roll-ups raised $1.5B. In 2021, they raised $12.5B. This type of companies, which acquires and grows several eCommerces, was definitely one of 2021's hottest trends. This great article analyzes how the business model works, its pros and cons.

​$2K MRR in 60 days by building in public. Black Magic started as a SaaS that allowed users to decorate their Twitter profile pictures and banners. After being stuck at $330 MRR for some time, the founder decided to do a business pivot in public. Since then, the SaaS has grown to $2,164/mo.

​How "Promotion Packs" helped me get 10,000+ new subscribers. Brennan Dunn runs one of my favorite newsletters, called Create & Sell, in which he weekly shares email marketing strategies and hacks. A few weeks ago, he shared a great personal story on how he borrowed other's audiences to grow his email list.

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Cheers,

Nico

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